Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site
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Old memes, hot nudes and millions in bitcoin, Har D. Drive achieved all of it.
"My treasures? You can have yhem if you'll find them. Come find them in the abandoned privatized landfill!" -
My dad lives on Yap for a few years as a kid. My grandparents had a 2' diameter rai stone until they died. It's with my aunt now.
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Very low. I think he dropped below the break-even point on this several years ago.
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Hard drives are not sealed, unless they're helium drives. They have breather holes to equalize pressure, and rubber seals around the data in interface that can degrade.
And that doesn't count being crushed in a garbage truck or other heavy equipment.
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He lost the coins in 2013 or before. The price was then $15 or even lower...
If he just bought 100 BTC for only $1.5k im 2013, he'd now have 10 million dollars....
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He lost the coins in 2013 or before. The price was then $15 or even lower...
If he just bought 100 BTC for only $1.5k im 2013, he'd now have 10 million dollars....
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it is just a matter of very carefully the drive before booting it up
I'm curious about what the missing word is. Cleaning? Inspecting?
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Different landfills have different policies/procedures.
Like I said, the odds aren't great. But if there was ever any chance of finding it, this isn't the kind of system where things are getting cubed every step of the way. And once there is a layer or two of trash above it (making finding said drive nigh impossible), it is going to be pretty protected from even heavy duty constructicons driving over it.
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It's a needle in a haystack, but that's a really valuable needle. It might actually be worth it.
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I'm Cap'n Raw D. Awg and imma be caPn oh the piRarates!!!
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If my math is right then he would have had to have $117k in bitcoin at that time to have $780m now. That is a lot of money to lose even back then.
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I've got a couple fractions sitting in a wallet I've had for ages that I just don't plan on selling at this point, maybe if it went to like $1m per coin or something stupid.
I'd written it off ages ago so seeing the price climb is interesting.
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Now you have my attention. This dude could get lots of people to search for free in the promise they’d get some scraps. I know two homeless dudes on the corner that would do this
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I have 3 dd dumps hanging out on my array waiting for a rainy day
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Yeah but theres no way of knowing if its viable or not at this point, so the only known factor is the value of BTC and the cost of money spent searching for the drive. Even if it fails break even (cost > value) that changes over time.
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If it's a hard drive with moving parts the chances of it still working are zero. Data recovery maybe possible if the platters are still somewhat intact but I doubt he'd even find it to begin with.
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Enough money? It's three quarters of a billion... That's an unreasonably large amount.
